County supervisor's son arrested on drug, money laundering charges

The son of Ventura County Supervisor Peter Foy was arrested Friday on money laundering, drug and burglary charges, officials said Sunday.

Peter Charles Foy II, 34, of Simi Valley, faces charges including felony money laundering, conspiracy to commit a crime, misdemeanor transportation of a controlled substance and second-degree commercial burglary, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

The Ventura County Combined Agency Narcotic Task Force received an anonymous tip in November that Foy was selling drugs in the county, officials said.

The task force started a criminal investigation and in January received information from a narcotics unit in Los Angeles County that a significant amount of money addressed to Foy had been seized in the mail, officials said.

A K-9 unit detected controlled substances on the package, which had been sent from Lexington, Ky., officials said. A search warrant was served on Foy's bank account, and records suggested that he had been laundering a significant amount of cash through his bank account for at least the past three years, officials said.

In June, the Lexington Police Department served a drug-related search warrant at a home where Foy had shipped many packages over one year, authorities said. The packages allegedly contained oxycodone pills.

In exchange, Foy was being sent the packages with the cash, officials said. The Postal Service seized one package in June, officials said.

Foy was arrested Friday on a warrant for multiple felonies and is scheduled to appear in Ventura County Superior Court on Tuesday, the Sheriff's Office said. He was being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.

In July 2012, Foy was sentenced to jail for six months and probation for three years after pleading no contest to conspiring to manufacture a human growth hormone used by bodybuilders.

The county supervisor said Sunday his family was astonished after receiving a call that his son had been arrested.

He said he last saw his son Tuesday and never suspected anything.

"I don't know what to make of them," Foy said of the charges. "He had an issue before, and you think you learn your lesson and don't do it again."

The younger Foy left home 17 years ago, and the relationship between the two has not been as close, the father said.

"It's a difficult time for our family, and this is not the person who left our home," Foy said.

Foy said he has been in touch with his son's wife and children.

"She was flabbergasted," he said of his daughter-in-law when she heard of the arrest. "It's unbelievable."

Foy said he plans to get in contact with his son in the following days. He didn't think his son was being represented by anyone, he added.

Attorney Ron Bamieh, who represented the younger Foy in the HGH case, said Sunday afternoon that he had not been in contact with him about the new charges.